Milage Update

[jeliotb]

I don't know that this is a "prize" to be winning, since I don't WANT to drive the car to death in just 2-3 years, but since January 9th, 2002, I've put 14,182 miles on my T-bird.

This comes from commuting about 600 miles a week to my work and graduate school, not counting special trips for other purposes. I'm trying to shift to using trains as much as possible -- I'd like to put less than 25,000 miles on the car for the year.

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[rlstonejr]

T02 Bird - Come to Destin!!!!!

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neiman vin#00035
delivered October 4, 2001

 

[Norman]

My wife and I have 3 of these great cars (we sold our child!.) The red Bird has 5100 miles and was delivered in Sept. of last year. The Blue Bird has 2000 miles and it's been here for a couple of months. And the Neiman Marcus car has only about 600 miles. Most all the miles on the red and blue cars were on trips. Very little local driving. The Neiman car is driven a little....only to keep it exercised.

 

[im20agn]

Picked up my blue bird May 20, 2002 and went to Yakima Valley Wine country the first weekend put 650 miles on and since then another 600 so 1250 now. I don't want to put a lot of miles on but the Tbird always seems to be the car of choice. Not even using my 66 vette much

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[HeelBird]

Amadeus landed here about 9/18/01, and has about 10,500 miles.

 

[JimmyFitz]

Our Blue Premium HT/Full accent #9429 was delivered January 26, 2002. It now has 5275 miles. It is also our car of choice over the 1997 Cougar. The Cougar is nice but it isn't a convertible. It does have one advantage (or disadvantage sometimes) in that it holds five adults. The Thunderbird is my daily driver and has also been on a few weekend trips of up to 750 miles.

Jimmy

 

[icrovop]

I have 9500 miles on my blackbird since Feb 1st. I am going to visit my rents this weekend for father's day and expect to put on another 1000. I would have more miles, but I am actually trying not to put miles on my baby.

 

[2K2BIRD]

"Jewel" has accumulated 1885 miles since 11/9/01. She is strictly a weekend toy. Bill (greenwr) - noticed you are planning on going to Destin, too. 02tbird (from Little Rock)and I have had a brief conversation about hooking up for the trip, so you need to get in the caravan with us. By the way, you better slow that red and white Razorback down or you'll wear her out the first year <g>.

Paul

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#3739 Premium
Torch Red w/matching top
Standard Interior

 

[niteflight]

My 100th post here (Corks popping, party favors honking, confetti flying): I've just passed 5,000 miles with Freyja, which puts me at about 20k per year; about 33% greater than my "legitimate" usage. You know those commercials where the person goes out of their way to drive their new Honda or whatever? This is the first car that has actually had that effect on me.

 

[greenwr]

Paul, I have visited with Dot about hooking up with a group out of the Dallas area. May want to come back through Pine Bluff, Ark. So we might would out something for thereturn trip.


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Bill's Red and White #4359
Tag # 15AGAIN

 

[redbirdsal]

I picked up my car 12/06/01, and have 4200 (s)miles to date.

Sally

 

[joelja]

1,100 miles in six weeks.

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blue/blue/full blue prem
Vin 16050;Rotation 5856
Delivered 4/29

 

[cat380]

Got my Bird Jan.16 and it now has 5,600 miles(1200 miles/mo). It is not a daily driver, just a weekend and play car. I also have a ,bought new, 1996 Mustang Cobra Convertible (also a play car) with 17,000 miles (240 miles/mo.). Which do you think is the most fun to drive?
Ed Robbins
Triple Black #4430

 

[yellowwing1]

Have had mine since Oct, 01 and have just shy of 1200 miles. Can't wait for a big trip. Joy

 

[K6RU]

April 6, 2002 delivery; 750 miles.

 

[rlstonejr]

3940 miles including 1200 on trip to Atlanta the first month.

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neiman vin#00035
delivered October 4, 2001

 

[RTBRD]

We have a pretty wide range of driving habit(at)s for our Birds. Here's what we've got:

Who...Delivery...Miles...Days...Mi/Day
jeliotb...01/09/02...14182...153...92.7
icrovop...02/01/02...9500...130...73.1
im20agn...05/20/02...1250...22...56.8
niteflight...03/04/02...5000...99...50.5
thenewtbird2...06/06/02...252...5...50.4
Howlee...01/25/02...5885...137...43.0
kenrhack...04/18/02...2300...54...42.6
Hobobob...10/12/01...10259...242...42.4
HeelBird...09/18/01...10500...266...39.5
JimmyFitz...01/26/02...5257...136...38.7
cat380...01/16/02...5600...146...38.4
Gobird...01/18/02...5300...144...36.8
greenwr...11/18/01...7500...205...36.6
RTBRD...09/28/01...8600...256...33.6
02tbird...11/30/01...5700...193...29.5
jawill2000...04/04/02...1893...68...27.8
Brooklyn...01/15/02...4000...156...25.6
joelja...04/29/02...1100...43...25.6
JimBob...03/25/02...1800...78...23.1
redbirdsal...12/06/01...4200...187...22.5
Norman...09/24/01...5100...260...19.6
TbirdTim...12/03/01...3100...190...16.3
rlstonejr...10/04/01...3940...250...15.8
ylobrd...02/12/02...1700...119...14.3
RedBirdDlx...04/29/02...500...43...11.6
K6RU...04/06/02...750...66...11.4
T02Bird...02/07/02...1200...124...9.7
NMJeff...09/27/01...2300...257...8.9
2K2BIRD...11/09/01...1885...214...8.8
Lon...10/09/01...1636...245...6.7
yellowwing1...10/01/01...1200...253...4.7
WJR1007...01/25/02...483...137...3.5

The average is 30.0 mi/day.



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[rlstonejr]

do you ever sleep? how do you find the time to do all of this?

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neiman vin#00035
delivered October 4, 2001

 

[RTBRD]

If I stay on top of it and enter the data as it comes in, Excel does all the work.

 

[chryslertcnut]

We have now had our car 14 days (at 4:30 this afternoon). It now has 633 miles on it which brings our average down to 45.2 miles per day. And we have three other vehicles that we have been driving too. Of course I'll put 10 more miles on it on the way home today and Dot will be using it tonight.
Our average will drop in the next few weeks as it will sit in the garage while we drive the '57 to Parsippany, NJ for the Convention and on to Atlanta for the 4th of July parade.
Where do the miles come from???????
George.

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